42nd Street Page #3

We also need a dance director who can

count to 40 without a pad and pencil.

Well, do something! Get another girl.

Are you gonna stand there

and shake a blond out your pantlegs?

- I don't want to butt in...

- A lot of people are like that.

- I can have one up here in the morning.

- That's ducky. I can hardly wait.

Mr. Marsh, you don't have to wait.

And she's a swell dancer too.

You picked her, but she got

eliminated the third time through.

Come out from behind there.

Hey, you, with the legs!

Come out of there.

Quiet! Quiet, please!

Quiet, please!

Well, I'm a... Hey, kid! Hey, you!

Hey, come on, get up.

- The boss wants to see you again.

- Who? Me?

Come on, come on.

All right, she'll do.

They're all yours, Andy.

All right, get in line.

All right, now, everybody.

Quiet, and listen to me.

Tomorrow morning,

we're gonna start a show.

We'll rehearse for five weeks,

and we'll open on scheduled time...

... and I mean, scheduled time.

You'll work and sweat

and work some more.

You'll work days and nights...

... and you'll work between time,

when I think you need it.

You'll dance until your feet fall off

and you can't stand up...

...but five weeks from now,

we're going to have a show.

Some of you have been with me before.

You know it'll be tough.

It'll be the toughest five weeks

that you ever lived through.

Do you all get that?

Anybody who doesn't think he'll like it,

better quit right now.

What do I hear?

Nobody?

Good. Then that's settled.

We start tomorrow morning.

All right, 10:
00 tomorrow morning,

we start with the lyrics.

In practice clothes.

What did I tell him?

This is what I told him:

"No, I won't run your stage

for that money."

Great. You beat Jerry

to the finish by two lengths.

All right, take your positions.

We'll try those routines again.

Quiet! Where do you

think you are, home?

I get back to New York

and I get this wire.

Come on, kids, make it snappy.

All right, Jerry, let's go!

Dorothy, that's your cue.

Things can never be the same now.

I beg your pardon,

but would you mind saying:

"Things can never be the same now"?

- That's what I said.

- You did not.

You said, "Things can

never be the same now."

- I did not.

- You did.

- Who's directing this show?

- She's reading my lines wrong.

- I am not.

- What did you say?

I said, "Things can

never be the same now."

That's right.

Things can never be the same now.

The scene ends with you on the steps,

and you go into the number.

That's where you take his hand.

The scene ends with you two

on the steps, and we go into the duet.

- You're doing fine for a beginner.

- Well, thanks. I'm trying.

I was so scared that first day,

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